I do a popular youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/kingscrusher - where I am currently trying to do a regular series of instructive games. I sometimes post links to those video annotations on the relevant games here. Please use the "Subscribe" button on my channel page to keep notified of new ones.

Played in the main British Chess Championship twice now, scoring 4.5 and 5 respectively (out of 11 - it is tough!).

I have created various video annotation grouping pages, which may be of interest for you to check out:

Apparently Lenox Lewis lives near me, and he has an interest in chess as well as being a great boxer.

The answer to life, the universe and everything was forty-two according the the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. But maybe for chess players it should be 64!!

When i was nearly 18, I managed to win the UK LLoyds bank Under 18 championship! In later years I attained a FIDE rating through the Lloyds bank Masters tournaments and through other tournaments such as Surrey and all play alls organised through Adam Raoof. Currently FIDE rated 2177. My BCF grading has been fluctuating over the years and is currently about 185 BCF, and I am play for Board 1 for both Barnet chess club and Muswell Hill chess club. My full chess cv can be found here:-

kingscrusher: Moszkowski012273: I am curious to know the basis for your comment - was it engine evaluation?! The game continuation it seems leads to a slight edge from an engine perspective after 17.Rd4 later - but once the pawns start going, they just increase in strength. My problem with ...

kingscrusher: The paradoxical effect of finding blunders when "simple chess" moves also occurs when given more time on the clock. I have lost count of the number of longer OTB time control games, I would have played better if it had been a 5 minute game. The time given to a player can mean a

MarkFinan: Mr Crusher.. I have a question for you if you wouldn't mind answering best you can.. When I was young I played chess to what I thought was a decent level. I played for Yorkshire when I was 10/11 a few times, won lots of competitions, etc. But I got out of chess around 12 year old and now I'm playing again I keep wandering what level I could have reached if I'd stuck at it.. I was just wandering at what age you got into playing, what levels were you playing at (if you were playing at that age?) age 10/11? And have you ever come across a player called Stephen Betts in your leagues and tournament games around England?

William Eversley: <kingscrusher> Hi Sir, I'm a big fan of yours and I was wondering if you could have a look at my line in the 6...Ng4 Najdorf(I don't have any chess engines). I believe it might interest you and it would be greatly appreciated!

Alien Math: Intrude with notes about Geoff Chandler
Post subject: Re: Sir George Alan <They think there is nothing these guys can show them, link that to the fact
a lot of these guys best games collections are still in descriptive then it's a non - starter.
Publishing houses are not too keen doing algebraic versions because opening books sell better.

What we need is...... :)
A program that turns descriptive into algebraic. >

MarkFinan: Hi.. I'm looking for a game played by a GM who played his best chess in the 60's and 70's called, Evans. This game was brought to my attention by way of an instructional chess video a good 3 year ago now, and I can't remember if it was one of yours. I just wandered if you can remember making any on any Evans game and if so could you post a link to the ones you have made by that player? I realise I'm being very vague, and I realise there's been a few GM's called Evans, and I really can't find this game anywhere on this site even though i was pretty sure I commented on it before! It's a game that someone like you with your knowledge of the game, wouldn't forget. I think it ended in a draw although not the "notable game" with Reshevsky on his player page here.. It's really starting to annoy me that I can't find it now.. Thanks in advance for any information 😃

MarkFinan: crawfb5.. It is a real possibility that I'm even getting his name wrong mate, lol.. But I don't think I am. I even looked at my previous handles for comments on an Evans game, and even though they were only quick 5 minute looks, I couldn't see any comments.. I started thinking it was Christiansen for some reason too, then I looked at the only game in the database between Evans and Chriatiansen but it's not that game either..

I'll find it soon enough, someone will realise what game I'm on about because it's one of those games you don't forget.. Unless you're me, lol 😃

AylerKupp: <kingscrusher> If you haven't seen the recently completed The World vs Naiditsch, 2014, you might want to take a look at it. The position after 24...c6 reminds me of White's position in R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 after 14.Rfd1; Black is lost no matter what he does in a seemingly equal position, with a pawn advantage, no less. And the moves leading up to it and the motivations behind it are equally interesting. Black had <one> chance to save the game by 24...Rd4 but apparently did not fully appreciate the danger and did not play it, just like R.Byrne did not fully appreciate the danger by playing 14.Rfd1 instead of 14.Rad1.

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